HUNDREDS of pounds in donations have been made to the Surrey Advertiser’s appeal to replace vandalised graves at Eashing Cemtery in Godalming.

Over the past week, the Rotary Club of Godalming Woolsack and accountancy firm Roffe Swayne have given £100 each, bringing the total raised to more than £600.

Sharon Ward, Roffe Swayne’s managing partner, said: "Being a local company, and having local staff and local clients, we wanted to do something positive to help because we all feel very strongly about the shocking vandalism."

Renato Rufus, president of the town’s chamber of commerce and managing director of Simple Investments, also donated £200 to the cause.

More contributions are still being finalised from other local groups and key figures in the business community.

The money means the town’s joint burial committee can make fitting memorials to those who were laid to rest in the graves, rather than just small tablets from the remaining pieces of rubble.

The donations will also be shared with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the not-for-profit organisation that replaced smashed headstones belonging to men who served in World War One.

A special re-dedication ceremony for the headstones is being planned for the end of the month.

Twelve graves at the Franklyn Road cemetery were desecrated on November 16 or 17, just days after the country paused on Remembrance Sunday to remember those who had lost their lives in conflicts.

Two headstones, military graves of men who served in the First World War, were broken in half with a heavy instrument.

Seven others were attacked with such violence that they were reduced to small mounds of rubble.

No arrests have yet been made, and Surrey Police are still urging anyone with information about what happened to come forward.